GEORGE DAUGHERTY Conductor George Daugherty is one of the classical music world’s most diverse artists. In addition to his 40-year conducting career which has included appearances with the world’s leading orchestras, ballet companies, opera houses, and concert artists, Daugherty is also an Emmy Award-winning / five-time Emmy nominated creator whose professional profile includes major credits as a director, writer, and producer for television, film, innovative and unique concerts, and the live theater. Maestro Daugherty made his debut with The Pittsburgh Symphony in 1990, when it became the first major symphony orchestra in the world to book the original “Bugs Bunny at the Symphony,” and he has returned for numerous performances since that time. Since 1993, he has conducted over 20 performances at The Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and an equal number with The National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap. He made his debut with the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall (then Avery Fisher Hall) at Lincoln Center in May, 2015 in four sold-out performances, and just returned there in May 2019 for three more sold-out performances. He has had a long relationship with the legendary Philadelphia Orchestra, conducting both film concerts and classical repertoire. He returned to The Philadelphia Orchestra for three sold-out concerts in January 2019. In 2022, he returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra at their home in Kimmel Center, and then conducts the orchestra on tour to Saratoga Performing Arts Center and Bravo! Vail Festival in Colorado. He also debuted with The Boston Pops in December 2017 in three sold-out performances, and returned to The Pops in December 2019. He debuted with Detroit Symphony in December 2018, and returns there in 2021. In 2023 he will make his debut with the iconic l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva, Switzerland. His current and recent conducting schedule includes multiple performances with National Arts Centre Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Seattle Symphony, San Francisco Symphony (over 30 performances of film concerts and classical repertoire within two decades), Milwaukee Symphony, Utah Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, The Cleveland 16
Orchestra at both Severance Hall and the Blossom Festival, New Jersey Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic. He has been a frequent guest conductor at the Sydney Opera House since 1996, and in 2002, 2005, 2010, and 2016, he returned to guest conduct the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, including recording a new CD with the orchestra. In this and recent seasons, he also made debuts and return appearances with the Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Omaha Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, KitchenerWaterloo Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, West Australia Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and multiple engagements with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra at both the National Concert Hall, and the new Grand Canal Theatre, both in Dublin, Ireland. He has been a frequent guest conductor at the Bellas Artes Opera House in Mexico City, where he has conducted the Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes in ballet and opera productions. He has also been a frequent conductor of London’s Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, with whom he first made his debut in Royal Festival Hall and on tour throughout The U.K., and more recently conducted a 15-city U.S. and Canadian concert tour with the orchestra and guest artists Dame Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charlotte Church, dancers of the Royal Ballet, and the Westminster Choir and Bell Ringers.
